Daniel Kalder is from Scotland, but lived in Russia for several years and discovered that at heart he's an anti-tourist.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Media theorist Douglas Rushkoff talks about his new book, "Present Shock: When Everything Happens Now."
Ayelet Waldman talks with Jim Fleming about maternal ambivalence and loving children when you don't like them.
David Brooks tells Steve Paulson the old ways of schools need to change.
Cornel West and Tavis Smiley take on the mainstream media and the political establishment.
Egyptian novelist Ahdaf Soueif tells Steve Paulson about the minimal lasting impact of the British occupation of her country, and why she lives and writes in Britain.
In 2011, as Hurricane Irene made landfall in New York City, poet Edward Hirsch learned that his 22-year old son Gabriel had died from a bad drug reaction and subsequent seizure. Later, Hirsch composed “Gabriel,” a book-length elegy poem about his relationship with his son, and his loss.
“Alif the Unseen” is steeped in an old tradition. It’s a book of magic about a book of magic.
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